khedive

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One of several Turkish viceroys ruling Egypt from 1867 to 1914.

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n. A form of Turkish viceroy who ruled Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The title of the viceroy of Egypt, assumed by Ismail Pasha in 1867, under a convention with his suzerain the Sultan of Turkey: an agreement made between them in 1866 had established for the first time hereditary succession in his family.

Granville managed to talk Gambetta down to issuing a “Joint Note” to the Egyptian nationalists: a warning that any move concerning the status of the khedive, the Dual Control, and the budget would be met with force.

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"The exciting new storytelling form, barely a century old, was adapted from the European novels that European armies brought in their wake: Napoleon's troops were in Cairo for three years, but, thanks to Egypt's Paris-worshipping nineteenth-century khedives, Balzac and Zola stayed for good."

-- Claudia Roth Pierpont, in "Found in Translation" in The New Yorker's January 18, 2010 issue.